Deportation from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip
From 2002 to 2004, Israel deported 32 Palestinians from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip, including 13 who were deported in May 2002 as part of the agreement to end the siege imposed on the Palestinian operatives who had fled to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
Year | Number of Deportees |
2002 | 15 |
2003 | 14 |
2004 | 3 |
Total | 32 |
Deportation out of the Occupied Territories: 1967-1992
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Source of Information:
The figures for 1967 to 1982 are taken from the reply of Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon to a parliamentary query of MK Mordechai Virshubski, 1983 Knesset Records 95, p. 1145. The figures refer to deportation orders that had been issued. The figures for 1982-1987 are based on the 17 December 1992 press release of the Palestinian organization PHRIC, and refer to the number of individuals actually deported.
Figures for the period since the beginning of the intifada are B'Tselem's statistics, and refer to the number of individuals actually deported.